It Looks Like Jack Dorsey's Mother's Twitter Account Got Hacked

If the mother of a Twitter co-founder can get hacked, there's no doubt it can happen to you.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- It's the second day in a row I have noticed what appears to be some sort of intrusion into Marcia Dorsey's Twitter (TWTR) account. That's Jack's Mom. Jack, of course, is Jack Dorsey, Twitter's co-founder.

**UPDATE: She deleted the errant Tweet, and I failed to screen capture it, but you can see the text of the all-too-common spam, followed by her reply.

I only point this out because it's the second day in a row I've seen it happen; it happens all day, seemingly everyday to others (that's a bit of an issue, no?); it raises questions about security on social networks; and, more importantly, it has to qualify as news, given the fact that every time Twitter goes down it makes headlines across the financial media. This is far more interesting than a random outage triggered by too many Tweets.

As I write Twitter stock is down about 2.5%, but that's probably not because of Jack's Mom's account. It's more likely because of this.

Rocco Pendola is a columnist for TheStreet. Pendola makes frequent appearances on national television networks such as CNN and CNBC as well as TheStreet TV. Whenever possible, Pendola uses hockey, Springsteen or Southern California references in his work. He lives in Santa Monica.